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Re: Follow-up: What *IS* a building instruction anyway?
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Wed, 31 Jul 2002 03:55:26 GMT
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Yet another 10c from me ...
A lot of the time I don't think we really need detailed building
instructions. For many models, a few good photos from all angles of the
finished product and a few detailed photos of "tricky bits" and "significant
subassemblies" will suffice. Take this building for example:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=16177
Just using the photos, I think I could come up with something pretty
similar. I don't need to be told how to stack one brick on top of another
to make the columns. The only thing that isn't immediately obvious to me is
how the diagonals connecting the corner columns to the main building are
done. But a close up photo would probably explain it. Maybe a bit of text
along the lines of "Note there is a layer of plates at each point where the
building is cantilevered" to explain something that's hard to see in the
photos.
Similarly look at the Moonbase project:
http://www.classic-space.com/moonbase01.html
and read about the moonbase connecting corridor. There's a couple of
pictures and some text, but it's sufficient instructions I think for most of
us to go away and build a moonbase connecting corridor.
Obviously some things like Technics etc have complex internal mechanisms
which may need more detailed explanation, but do we need a brick-by-brick
approach to all instructions? I think not.
The purpose of instructions is to communicate. If the recipient can
understand them, then that purpose is achieved.
Kerry
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| (...) Your assumptions of the audience and what is a BI are different than mine. As I stated before, I want to make sure that the user of my BIs duplicated MY MODEL 100% the same way I did mine. Otherwise, s/he is NOT building MY MODEL but a (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.inst)
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| (...) Well, I'd say almost the opposite. Firstly, the instructions Lego produce are (for most AFOLs) needlessly laborious in their detail. Megablocks and Shifty/Brick both produce far more compact instructions that do more at each step and they are (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.inst)
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